Racial Justice Fellows, 2007

Leoneda Inge
Reporter
North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC

LEONEDA INGE is the Changing Economy Reporter for North Carolina Public Radio. She is based in Durham. Since moving to North Carolina, Inge has spent the past five years tracking job loss and other major changes in the state’s longtime tobacco, furniture and textile industries. In 2006, Inge and a team of journalists won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for the series “North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty.” She has won several other first place awards, including two Gracie Awards from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television, several AP Awards and a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Inge is a regular contributor to News & Notes on National Public Radio. In 1995, she was named a Knight-Wallace Fellow (formerly Michigan Journalism Fellow) at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor where she studied Environmental Justice. She received her B.S. degree in Journalism from Florida A&M University.

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